Introducing Bounce: a new tool that uses Bridgy Fed to migrate your social graph b/w ActivityPub and ATProto.

Yup, we built a service that moves your social graph *across* protocols.

And the best part? You get to keep *all* of your followers, along with many of your follows.

"Masculine Energy"

Was planning to keep this account as a tech related content only, but since this is now my only social media, well, a lot of running/random posts will come. It had to be done.

Now that's a headline.

🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media.
Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives.

#FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative.

Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com

2024 was a big year for atproto!

We've got an update looking back at progress that has been made, and some protocol work in progress. Will have a 2025 roadmap to share soon.

Came to accept this is just natural but never not thinking about Hayao Miyazaki’s creative process.

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete?

I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post.

samwho.dev/turing-machi...

(1/10) Some lessons learnt from a project where I tried to build an audit logging solution. #SystemDesign often forces trade-offs between reinventing the wheel (risky but adaptable) and using existing solutions (reliable but potentially inflexible).

blog.theengineeringcompass.com/p/building-a...

After sending countless throwaway accounts to die on my PDS, this is finally good enough to ship: www.npmjs.com/package/blue...

It's a CLI wizard for migrating your Bluesky account from one PDS to another. If you feed it the right credentials and have a stable connection, it should Just Work™.

I need more convos like this.

Bluesky's journey toward decentralised social media faces real-world scaling challenges. While their innovative protocol promises user freedom and data portability, most of their 20M+ users still rely on Bluesky's infrastructure.

Some takeaways: blog.theengineeringcompass.com/p/decentrali...

How do crons schedule tasks, and are they efficient?

In the early cron days, a job would wake up every min to check if any tasks need to be run. Later, Franta-Maly event list was used as a priority queue. This achieved O(√n). Now O(1) is possible.

blog.theengineeringcompass.com/p/advanced-d...

Picture this: You're at a restaurant that accepts credit cards for dine-in but only cash for takeout, Apple Pay for drinks but not desserts. Sounds absurd? This was essentially Uber's reality across its services.

Some lessons from their journey:
blog.theengineeringcompass.com/p/payments-s...

Part of the journey on attempting to better understand how the real world works - wrote a guide on how to decode #QRcodes. Next articles will dive into how the #encoding / #decoding part works from #Hamming to #Reed-Solomon codes.

thecraftydev.substack.com/p/from-pixel...

Just finished reading Dr Fei Fei's Li amazing memoir on her experiences and challenges as a scientist emphasising her profound passion for the work that has solidified her standing as a well-known thought leader in the field of #AI. Review available here thecraftydev.substack.com/p/book-revie....